thanks,i spent 30 years bending 1/2 to 4" pipe as an electrician so it wasnt that hard. the bender isnt as good as im use to. It tends to kink the pipe. I only took 3 trys to get two good bends. I had the outer rollers to close on the first attempt. For the price of the bender it works just fine.

Today I made a temporary mount for the jack, wired the Motor home for electric brakes,and crammed the jeep on the trailer. At first it wouldn't fit, but a little throttle in low and it did go. its so tight i probably didn't need to strap it down.

Back from pismo, Its a long drive but it was fun. All the people who were supposed to go with me, or should i say they invited me to go with them ,all were no shows! My son and i had a great time anyway. Pulled down the beach about 5 miles and tried to park as close to the ocean without having high tide swamp us. I ended up 5feet to close, whoops! The jeep did great and didnt break down. The fenders rubbed a little under full power when hitting the bottom of the dunes. There were a ton of landcruisers and i wish i had gotten picks of them launching through the air,trying to out do each other.

Today i used the jeep to do a little work behind my house, I had a tree fall last year and after i cut into rounds i couldnt get the big ones up the hill with my riding mower. The jeep pulled them up no problem, maybe i can attach a mower deck to it and have another excuse to drive it . while i was back ther i found a rock to climb.

After i put the hard top on i had all lot of air noise comming from where the hard top meets the windshield. it had a foam wheatherstrip on it already. I didnt want to take the top back off and add a different strip so i just stuffed some backer rod used for caulking bid gaps and it worked perfect.

Well i finally think i have most of the parts and tools to start upgrading the yj. The plan is to change the gearing from 3.54 to 4.10,add aussies front and back.,replace the dana 35 with a 44,slipyoke eliminator,home made posilock,Add another 2" off lift to the existing 4" lift with 6" booms and lowering the spring perches 2".Also going to install a hand throttle,replace the dana 30 wheel joints ,use a cut down front driveline from a xj for the rear of the yj.i need to repaint at least the right front fender or maybe the whole jeep.Ill try to post pics as i go.

man do i need some money. glad to see you plan everything out instead if jumping in and going broke half way done.

I hope you do not mind, I am going to steal your idea for mounting your hi lift jack. I like it.

the high lift was mounted using 1/2" threaded rod and some nuts and washers. I only had 1 wingnut so i made one from a u-joint strap welded to a 1/2" nut. the threaded rod comes in 10' lengths and comes in handy to have for projects. make sure you use a torch to help when bending the rod, it will not work good otherwise. Under the plastic jeep cover there is to 1/2" threaded holes just waiting to be used for this set up. I used a uni-bit to cut the plastic. Ill have to change it up when i get a winch.